International PAG - Forage & Turf Plants: Gene Expression and Transformation Workshop


Saturday Morning, 12 January 2008 --- 8:00 am - 10:10 am

Forage & Turf Plants Workshop - Pacific Salon 1

Organizers:

German Spangenberg, Agriculture Victoria
(german.spangenberg@nre.vic.gov.au)

and

Reed E. Barker, Oregon State University
(ggtinc@comcast.net)

Speakers:

1. 8:05 am
Peter Gresshoff, ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, AU (p.gresshoff@botany.uq.edu.au)
"Induced ethylene and ABA mutants of Lotus japonicus: new tools to study development and plant performance"

2. 8:25 am
Toshihiko Yamada, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan (yamada@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp)
"Functional genomics of winter hardiness in forage grasses"

3. 8:45 am
Tim Sawbridge, Department of Primary Industries, Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, AU (tim.sawbridge@dpi.vic.gov.au)
"Genome survey sequencing of perennial ryegrass fungal endophyte Neotyphodium lolii strains with differing toxin profiles"

4. 9:05 am
Leif Skot, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, UK (leif.skot@bbsrc.ac.uk)
"Association and introgression mapping of quantitative traits in Lolium perenne: Flowering time, forage quality and abiotic stress tolerance"

5. 9:25 am
Dongxiu Zhang, University of Kentucky, USA (dongxiu.zhang@uky.edu)
"Coordinated expression of loline alkaloid genes in fungal grass endophytes"

6. 9:45 am
Chris Jones, AgResearch Grasslands , New Zealand (chris.jones@agresearch.co.nz)
"A multidisciplinary approach to manipulating forage genomes"


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